Direc­tory tex-archive/systems/msdos/nb4latex

On NB4LATEX: current status and developments
I wrote nb4latex many years ago, around 1994-1995. As many classicists and
linguists, I had been a happy user of NotaBene, a Dos programme (later
Windows) which was, for that age, spectacular -- you could write and print
non-Latin chars (Greek, Hebrew, maths) with no effort and an excellent
quality. Also the bibliographic data could be dealt with very well.
Later I 'discovered' LaTeX -- a colleague in the maths department was using it
and I was impressed by the elegance of the output. But Greek and so on could
not be typed directly (there was no Unicode input at the time). So I planned
to use NotaBene as input, and LaTeX as 'final' formatter. My programme was a
filter from NotaBene to LaTeX.
Then I left Windows for Linux -- and the programme became totally useless,
because it's a Dos programme. Now I write everything with the (g)vim LaTeX
suite, a Unicode encoding for Greek and other non-Latin chars, and it's a
pleasure.
I decided to upload the programme beacuse I receive some requests of
people saying more or less: I have a book/article/essay written in NB and the
typesetter/department/whatever wants to get in LaTeX.
However, please notice:
(1) he programme is old and that needs a radical update;
(2) I must update the programme to support the modern Windows versions of NotaBene.
Please write to my email address for suggestions and requests.
Guido Milanese
7th of January 2008
guido.milanese@unicatt.it

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nb4la­tex – Con­vert No­taBene4 to LaTeX

A pro­gram to con­vert old (MS-DOS) No­taBene4 (in­clud­ing an­cient
Greek and all the sym­bols of logic) files to LaTeX for­mat. With
this con­ver­sion pro­gram and its util­i­ties, you can use No­taBene
for edit­ing (see­ing all the ac­cents, the Greek chars, etc.) and,
at the very fi­nal stage of doc­u­ment prepa­ra­tion, con­vert it to
LaTeX.

The present ver­sion of the pro­gram is im­ple­mented for MS-DOS; the
README dis­cusses what might be nec­es­sary to up­date the pro­gram.